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Picture Page November 2011 A box of Sage Ammunition Works .56-50 Spencer......
The box is one of the 42 round style containing six packs of seven
cartridges each, which
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An unfinished .414 E. T. Gates cartridge case.......
Here's a headstamp you don't see every day, on an unfinished case as well. It's a .414 E. T. Gates Super Magnum case by Starline. The cartridge was introduced in 1983 by Elgin T. Gates, one of a number that he developed for use in the Dan Wesson revolver. It was intended for metal silhouette target shooting. Gates was considered to be one of the greatest big game hunters in the United States, as well as a boat racer, marksman, author, and founder of the International Handgun Metallic Silhouette Association (IHMSA). . . . . . . . . .
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This is a box of Sage Ammunition Works .56-50 Spencer cartridges that I
recently purchased. The Sage Ammunition Works was incorporated in 1864 in
Middletown, Connecticut for the purpose of manufacturing Spencer.56-56 rim
fire cartridges on contract for the U.S. Government. With the end of the
Civil War, demand for ammunition by the government fell off and the
company, which produced no metallic ammunition other than the two Spencer
rounds, was forced to close in 1866. 
would
allow the Spencer rifle or carbine to be loaded six times. One of these
seven round packs is shown here with its side opened to reveal the
cartridges. The box label states that the cartridges are for the Spencer
Model 1865 Carbine, which was a conversion of the Civil War production
carbine from .52 caliber to .50 by means of barrel sleeve.
The
cartridges in this box have an impressed S.A.W. headstamp. Sage used a
raised headstamp also in this caliber. There are at least two variations of
the impressed headstamp with one having larger characters than the other.
The .56-56 cartridges were not headstamped.
